Patrik Lindberg (born June 10, 1988) is swedish a professional gamer, who is known for his long-standing superior performance
in the competitive Counter-Strike scene. Having played competitively since 2005,
Lindberg, going by the pseudonym of "f0rest", has widely gained a reputation
within the electronic sports scene as one of the best-performing Counter- Strike
players in the world. Lindberg is best known for his four years of tenure on
the Fnatic roster, which he helped bring to prominence as the dominant team of
2009, during which year the team broke the record for the highest-earning team
in Counter-Strike history. Near the end of 2010, Lindberg left Fnatic and joined
SK Gaming, which he remained with until July 2012. Soon after, he transitioned
over to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and joined the team Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Filip Kubski, (born June 15, 1987) better known as NEO, is a Polish player of the Counter- Strike series who is an AWPer and Rifler for Virtus.pro. NEO is considered one of the best players in Counter-Strike history and one of the "Golden Five" group of Polish CS players who won many tournaments with a number of different eSports teams. He has also played for AGAiN, Universal Soldiers, ESC Gaming, Frag eXecutors, Vitriolic, Wicked eSports, Meet Your Makers, and Pentagram G-Shock. Kubski has been playing professionally since 2004.In addition to being a great aimer and highly intelligent player, Kubski is also highly regarded for his mastery of Counter-Strike 1.6's in-game movement. His ability to perform difficult movements and access areas of maps that are unreachable by most make him unpredictable and difficult to counter. In 2010, HLTV.org users voted Kubski the best Counter-Strike player of the previous decade. He also won the eSports Award for eSports Player of the Year in 2007 and 2008, and was rated by HLTV.org as the best player of 2011.Virtus.pro and NEO appeared in the Intel Extreme Masters Season X - Katowice World Championship in 2016 and got 5-8th.

3. GeT_RiGhT

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund (born May 29, 1990) has, since the start of his professional career, been one of the highest rated players in almost all tournaments that he attended. GeT_RiGhT combines incredible aim with flawless in-game IQ. His play style often prevents opposing teams from executing strategies the way they want, giving his team the advantage. He currently plays for Ninjas in Pyjamas as the lurker.

4. Shox

Richard "shox" Papillon (born May 27th, 1992) is a French professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and former Counter-Strike: Source player. Shox is an incredibly talented player, known for his amazing pistol skills, astonishing accuracy with rifles and energetic AWPing style, making him an all-round player, which in his prime was carrying teams like VeryGames and Epsilon. He started playing Counter-Strike back in the days of 1.5, and then slowly moved on to each next version of the game, ending up in Counter- Strike: Source. In 2008, he started making his breakthrough with a team called Creativ` and already in March 2009 he joined VeryGames for the first time. Already then he was an established top player, by many accounts even the best in the world, but the team itself ran into some problems and would be released from the organization near the end of the year. Shox would then even try out playing Counter- Strike 1.6 for a short period in 2010, but he went back to Counter-Strike: Source to represent Team ROCCAT, LDLC.com and later 3DMAX together with another current star, Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom. After only a few months in that 3DMAX team, shox left to join VeryGames once again[1] where he would sit on top of the world for about six months. And then, despite being one of the best players in the world and winning ESWC with the team, he was removed due to internal problems at the end of November 2011[2]. He would go back to team up with ScreaM in Tt Dragons at the beginning of 2012[3], and they would together switch to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive when the new game came out.

Yegor "markeloff" Markelov (born February 12, 1988) is an Ukrainian Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and former Counter-Strike 1.6 player. In both games he played for the famous Ukrainian team Natus Vincere. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Counter-Strike 1.6-players of all time, he revolutionized AWP-play with his extremely aggressive playstyle focusing heavily on entry-kills. While he earlier took the role of and was known as a world-class AWPer, he has recently taken on a rifler role after s1mple's recruitment into HellRaisers. Currently plays for Flipsid3 Tactics. Thanks to his performances in the last three years of CS 1.6, Yegor "markeloff" Markelov established himself as one of the best AWPers and even one of the best players in the history of the game. Before that, he spent a spell in DTS Gaming as an important part of his learning curve, but even further back he started his international rise in 2008 with his home team HellRaisers. Later he would reform that HellRaisers team from which him and Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev would make the jump to join the lineup that would become Natus Vincere at the end of 2009. From 2010 onwards, he was consistently one of the world's elite players. Although 2012 was scarce in events in comparison, he continued putting in the same level of performances without having a single below-average LAN display. Na`Vi finally made the switch to CS:GO at the end of 2012, and the already seasoned AWP star would end up making his debut in February 2013 at Mad Catz Vienna.

6. HeatoN

Emil Pathric William Christensen (born 14 June 1984 in Stockholm), alias HeatoN, is a former Swedish professional Counter-Strike player, formerly playing as captain of the gaming team Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP). He is widely considered as one of the best Counter-Strike players of all time. Emil's first hobby was ice hockey, but he retired because of injury. A friend (CS player fRa1L, from RevolutioN) told him to try Counter-Strike. Christensen was part of the original Ninjas in Pyjamas team of 2001 which won the Cyberathlete Professional League World Championship that year. He and the other members of Ninjas in Pyjamas went on to become the foundation to the highly successful SK Sweden, one of the most successful teams in electronic sports history. Christensen led SK Gaming to the World Cyber Games Counter-Strike championship in 2003 and to 4th place in 2004. Christensen was nominated for Best Counter-Strike Player of the Year in 2004, losing out to SK Gaming teammate, Tommy "Potti'" Ingemarsson. He was selected for the Global Gaming League European Counter-Strike All-Star team in 2005.At the beginning of 2005 he and the rest of SK Sweden chose not to renew their contracts with SK Gaming and re-formed NiP. Since then some of the NiP players moved back to SK Gaming but Christensen and others have stayed on at Ninjas in Pyjamas. NiP are now competing at professional LAN tournaments again, after a hiatus in which SpawN joined after HeatoN decided to take time off for personal reasons. Christensen, along with the other members of Ninjas in Pyjamas, assisted in the design of the SteelSound 5H (USB) Headphones produced by SteelSeries. In December 2006 he travelled to New York and Dallas to provide support for his teammates as they competed in the WSVG world finals and CPL winter respectively. NiP were expected to be strong contenders in both tournaments, however bowed out uncharacteristically early. In September 2007 HeatoN quit playing Counter-Strike to be coach of NiP but was then offered a chance to be a general manager for Stockholm in the CGS. HeatoN's CGS franchise is called the Stockholm Magnetik and has a Counter-Strike: Source team, Dead or Alive 4 players, one male, one female, a FIFA 08 player and two Forza Motorsport 2 players to represent him and his franchise. In September 2015 HeatoN was found guilty of fraud associated with the 2014 sale of NiP to Diglife, and was sentenced pay a fine and perform community service.

Ioann "Edward" Sucharyev (also Sukhariev , Ukrainian Іоанн Сухарєв ; * 28 December 1987 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian counter-strike player. He currently plays for the Ukrainian organization Natus Vincere 's game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . Until 2012 he played Counter- Strike 1.6 . Sukhayev is one of the best-known players in the Counter-Strike scene, and with more than 50 won 1 vs. 2 situations as one of the world's best clutch players.

Wiktor Wojtas, (born June 6, 1986) known as TaZ, is a Polish Counter-Strike player who is the in- game leader for Virtus.pro. He is one of the "Golden Five" group of Polish CS players who won many tournaments with a number of different esports teams. He has also played for AGAiN, Universal Soldiers, ESC Gaming, Frag eXecutors, Vitriolic, Wicked eSports, Meet Your Makers, and Pentagram G-Shock. Wojtas has been playing professionally since 2004. TaZ and Virtus.pro won ELeague Season 1 over fnatic in the finals on July 30, 2016, ending the slump Virtus pro had been in. As of October 2016, TaZ has won $476,809, the largest single prize being $80,000 from winning ELeague Season 1.

Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert (born October 25, 1990) is an American professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for Cloud9. He made his debut in Counter-Strike 1.6 and would go on to win many championships under the Evil Geniuses banner. He is the one of three players to have won nine ESEA Championships. He made the switch to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2013 with Team Dynamic, but fell short in his first CS:GO LAN appearance. Since then, n0thing has been a part of compLexity, and more recently Cloud9, where he has enjoyed a lot of national success.

Finn Andersen (born April 14, 1990), better known as Karrigan, is a Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who is the in-game leader for FaZe Clan. Andersen is considered one of the best players in the world. He has also played for other teams including n!faculty, Team Dignitas, Team SoloMid, Copenhagen Wolves, fnatic, and mousesports. Karrigan was a founding member of Astralis, a player owned team established in 2015. He began playing competitively in 2006 during the Counter-Strike 1.6 era. He joined fnatic around March 25, 2012 and the team won many tournaments that year. With the advent of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene he joined mousesports because "the offer they gave me was really good", and he felt like the Fnatic lineup did not have what it took to be successful in the new title. Karrigan left Copenhagen Wolves and joined the Denmark-based roster of North American organization Team SoloMid. On January 25, 2015 Team SoloMid picked up Team Dignitas' CS roster. In July SoloMid placed 3-4th the year's second Major, ESL One Cologne 2015. In October TSM got 5-8th at the last Major, DreamHack Open Cluj- Napoca 2015. TSM's CS:GO roster left the organization on December 3, 2015 amid internal troubles. For the next few tournaments the team competed under the name "Team Question Mark". On January 9, 2016 Team Question Mark unveiled the new organization they created, Astralis, because of a desire to have a "stable environment" in eSports. The organization was registered as an Anpartsselskab (ApS) and received venture capital from Sunstone Capital, and is angel invested by entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers. On June 5, 2016 he was denied entry into the United States to compete in the group stage of ELeague Season 1 due to new rules regarding Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) travel because he had been to Iran within the last five years.[9] During the matches he missed the team used coach Danny "Zonic" Sørensen in his place. Astralis got 3-4th at the MLG Major Championship: Columbus in March. In July they got 5-8th at second Major, ESL One Cologne 2016. Karrigan transferred to FaZe Clan on October 19, 2016.
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Daniel "fRoD" Montaner is an American former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and former Counter-Strike 1.6 player. Since ending his career in Counter-Strike, he moved over to FaZe Clan's Overwatch lineup, which he is now the team manager of.